This paper presents research on Multilingualism in Language Acquisition, making emphasis on how it affects the process of learning a new langue in multilingual people. The article goes through many topics, such as “the nativist theory” related to the process of language acquisition, among others that help to the understanding of the conclusions. The method used to gather information was through questionnaires. To carry out the research students and teachers from the Language Department of...
Topics: acquisition, bilingualism, learning, theory, transfer, SLA, code-switching, trans language,...
This article examines the benefits that the use of children’s literature can bring to Special Education. Children’s literature can provide significant benefits to students by providing role models and values as well as enhancing their cognitive development. This applies to all children with the exception of those who face special educational needs and are included in special education. The benefits of children’s literature are as much cognitive and academic as they are emotional and...
Topics: special education, children’s literature, education
Greece and Italy as neighboring countries have exchanged elements of their language and culture over the centuries since they are connected by many historical events. The purpose of this work is to study the influence of the city of Genoa in Greece. There will be a reference to the Greek areas conquered and lived by the Genoese, a general presentation of the Italian element in the northern Aegean.
Topics: culture, possessions, Chios, language, cultural heritage
This study aims to recall the ideas and activities in the field of an evolutionary approach to the research of speculative historiosophy and its possible influences on the research of the social sciences and humanities. The research is in the form of a scientific essay in which different concepts are analyzed. The main points in the essay are: “Genetics” and “What is the role of the humanities and social sciences? Is their existence really pointless?” The essay ends with conclusions:...
Topics: genetics, humanities, social sciences
This study profiles the nature of culturally bound syndrome perception of Ode-Ori (schizophrenia) incident among faith based and traditional mental illness healers in the Oke-Ogun area. The study relied on Interviews with mental health healers in the faith based and traditional treatment of mental illness. The interviews were recorded on tape, processed, and analyzed. Narratives indicated that local mental health experts conceptualize Ode-Ori as a psychotic syndrome resulting from spiritual...
Topics: Ode-Ori (schizophrenia), culturally bound syndrome, Onko speaking people, faith based and...
This study analyzes the effect of migration on the left-behind family members in Nepal especially focusing on the family structure, livelihood, education, aging parents, reproductive health, and marital relationship. The review was done based on the published journal articles, dissertations, and organizational reports from 2015-2020 to explore the areas impacted by the migration. Seven thematic areas emerged and found both positive and adverse effects and association of migration on left behind...
Topics: migration, remittance, left-behind family, livelihood, family structure, education, aging parents
This paper explores the scourge of human trafficking in South Africa and Zimbabwe- two neighboring Southern African nations. Data for this study were obtained from research articles, documents and online articles on trafficking in persons. The paper highlights the trends, push/pull factors, the control, as well as the obstacles to effective control of human trafficking within the two countries. The paper reveals that South Africa is characterized by pull factors, largely due to its position as...
Topics: human trafficking, trafficking in persons, human trafficking control, South Africa, Zimbabwe
The descriptive study examined the role of peer influence and tertiary institution type on attitude toward cohabitation among adolescents in southwestern Nigeria. A sample of 620 males and females with (M=19.56 years, SD=6.18) completed a survey that comprised demographic information, measures of attitude toward cohabitation and peer pressure. Findings revealed that there was significant influence of peer influence on attitude toward cohabitation. There was no influence of tertiary institution...
Topics: attitude toward cohabitation, peer influence, tertiary institution type
The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of alcohol misuse in HIV-infection at the Health and Welfare Organisation in South Africa. There is an association between alcohol misuse and HIV transmission. Male youths may lack understanding of the effects of alcohol on their sexual behavior when under the influence of alcohol. This makes male youths vulnerable to HIV infection. Qualitative methodology was used for an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon under investigation. The...
Topics: alcohol misuse, HIV/AIDS, HIV-prevention, male youths, sexual transmitted infections, risky behavior
The theme of this article is informing about existing policies, practices and situation (including gender disaggregated statistics) with regard to the enrolment of Roma children in pre-school and primary school in the target localities of Veľká Lomnica and Toporec. It is done by an analysis of the obstacles and challenges encountered in their adequate and timely enrolment, as well as identified solutions a description of the implemented activities and their outputs; and recommendations on how...
Topics: Roma children, equal access, education, obstacles
The abrupt influx of refugee populations in Europe in the last few years has, undoubtedly, posed many challenges in European countries. Higher Education is considered to be vital for the successful settlement of refugee communities into their host societies. Therefore, it is necessary to establish whether potential refugee aspirations to gain access in HEIs of their host country can be met at all. The present paper examines Greek policies regarding the inclusion of refugees in Higher Education...
Topics: refugees and asylum seekers, access to higher education, higher education policies, comparative...
The feminist movement in Mexico has recently gained attention due to the diverse manifestations along with the country. The song Canción sin miedo (2020) portrays elements that keep a relationship with the feminist ideology, as well as recent events that are depicted in the lyrics. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is presented as an approach to examining the song, using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model and parallelism analysis. The outcomes of this study suggest...
Topics: critical discourse analysis, feminist ideology, systemic functional linguistics, parallelism
The Durkheimian sociological doctrine of suicide is classified into regulation/integration, high and low social currents, with four resultant suicide types such as egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic suicide. Across Nigeria and social classes, suicide types and circumstances according to the above classifications have become worrisome, warranting empirical investigation into the social wellbeing and suicide potentials in the social realm of Nigerian socio-economic and political...
Topics: suicide tendency, anomic suicide, egoistic suicide, fatalistic suicide, altruistic suicide,...
Thousands of women die every day all over the world due to violence. Mexico is a country in which it is believed that machismo is one of the reasons why women are violated and murdered. There is the stereotype of believing that the female gender is being mistreated directly by men. However, this study aimed to show how women express themselves with a negative connotation against their own gender. Perhaps, females portrait themselves as feminists or women defenders. Nonetheless, their...
Topics: critical discourse analysis, machismo, violence against women, female perceptions
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The so-called “refugee crisis” has challenged establishment putting its capacities under question as the image of a chaotic situation prevailed over European Union and its member states intervention. Formal civil society and big transnational humanitarian institutions also became the target of the critics of a heterogeneous public. Present work argues that current forms of civil engagement, manifested for example in informal initiatives helping refugees, locate their efforts under an...
Topics: performative hybridity, informal initiative, refugee crisis, civil society
This paper examines the status, position and roles of women in ancient Greece. Based on available historical sources, it can be clearly established that women in ancient Greece had an inferior position to men. They were primarily viewed as “species-extending beings”. In none of the Greek city-states did women have political rights and were not considered as citizens. The status of women in ancient Greece, in terms of role, position, opportunity etc., varied from one city-state to another....
Topics: women’ status, ancient Greece, society, family, gender discrimination
Traditional fishermen in Indonesia were commonly positioned as the poorest people. Actually, the society had owned the strategy to face the social economic difficulties. Generally, poor people had more spirit of survival because they needed to survive their life. That kind of potency might be in the form of personal-social asset, adaptation strategy and problem solving (coping strategy) used locally based on their house condition. This research aimed to explore the way of poor fishermen to...
Topics: social, defense, livelihood strategy, poor fishermen
The present article is written on the occasion of staging Socrates on Trial in Athens. The authors want to reveal unexplored psychological (such as the problem of personal identity, human relations, therapeutic needs of modern man etc.) and social aspects and situations (e.g. problem of justice, social role of the wise man, philosophy in education etc.) that those involved in the specific dramatization have faced with. The application of the Socratic dialectic in the theatrical presentation...
Topics: Socrates, Platonic drama, philosophical counseling, art and philosophy, Socratic dialectic
In this essay the possibilities for the practical application of Hungarian intercultural pedagogy are analyzed showing the reflective practice of cultural anthropology. In Hungary a unitedly accepted model of intercultural pedagogy does not exist and the process of its creation is also full of obstacles. Forming the right method means interfering the everyday life of school communities and the knowledge of the usual working process in the school educational system is also assumed, A long,...
Topics: intercultural pedagogy, cultural anthropology, anthropological pedagogy
In Pakistan, which is an ideological state, the minority issue is sociological, as well as legal at the same time. Christians are the largest religious minority in Pakistan, but at all levels are facing discrimination, i.e. in socioeconomic, as well as politico-legal sphere. They are considered as a second-class citizen by masses. While the women who belong to this minority group are facing double discrimination, firstly as a woman, and then as a Christian. Interview schedule was used to...
Topics: civic engagement, socioeconomic conditions, minority, Christian women, case studies, Pakistan
Cultural shift and poverty problem are two matters occurring most frequently in marginalized customary community environment. Those two matters also occur in Benteng Chinese community living in Tangerang area. This research aimed to describe the role of Benteng Chinese women in Community’s cultural and economic resilience. The method employed in this research was qualitative one with Ethnographic approach. This research took place in Kelurahan Mekarsari, Neglasari Sub District, Tangerang...
Topics: Benteng Chinese women, cultural and economic resilience, cooperatives, social capital
The present research examines those changes that happened between the 1940s and the 2010s to the dance culture of a Moldavian Csángó village of East Romania called Magyarfalu. In the light of a holistic approach and on the basis of archive data and fieldwork, the leading aims are to identify those adaptation practices that lie behind the transformation of the dance culture, the triggers thereof, that is the micro or macro processes which induced the adaptation in the local community and to...
Topics: Moldavia, Csángó, dance anthropology, functionalism, adaptation
Communicative norms differ from one culture to another. Therefore, if language learners lack knowledge of appropriate linguistic behaviour in different countries, they may often experience some difficulties speaking a foreign language. In this case, sociopragmatic failure occurs. In the relevant literature, there is a tendency to explain sociopragmatic failure comparing various languages to English. However, the present article analyses the examples of this phenomenon in Ukrainian as compared...
Topics: sociopragmatic failure, cooperative principle, politeness principle, face
Through critical discourse analysis, feminist ideologies found within Wonder Woman’s first comic book appearance are uncovered. This is achieved by following Fairclough’s threedimensional model of critical discourse analysis in which the text is socially positioned. The findings suggest that radical feminist ideologies prevail in Wonder Woman’s first appearance. Finally, a call for a multi-modal analysis is made as it would better represent the language – text and image – found in...
Topics: critical discourse analysis, feminist ideologies, Wonder Woman
This article analyses some aspects of the processes constructing values of the remote past and their role in the formation of national identity. The useful debate on “identity” provides a space to look at it not only as an analytical category but also as a practical one. As a category of practice it is concerned to be used by “lay” actors in some everyday settings to make sense of themselves and how they differ from others (Brubaker & Cooper, 2000). I focus therefore on antiquities...
Topics: antiquities, national identity, politics of the past, history of archaeology, culture-historical...
There are conclusions of many authors who studied parental influence on student achievement and educational aspiration that there is significant influence in the domain. These conclusions and essential characteristics of parental influence on students’ achievement in mathematics and science obtained from the TIMSS 2003 in Serbia are the main topics of the study. The objectives of this study are to determine correlations between: (1) parental level of education and achievement of Serbian...
Topics: TIMSS 2003, contextual factor, parental influence, student achievement, mathematics, science
This paper deals with languages and culture, zonal constructed language forms and world-wide globalisation. The link between language and culture is stressed in the first part of the paper, and the connection between language, culture and development is likewise noted. An intense development phase in technology (linked, it would seem, also to extensive language and culture diversity) occurred in the 19th century, yet afterward – and especially when English became dominant in the world,...
Topics: language, culture, (technical) development, globalisation, zonal constructed languages
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